ET deals: 24% off Dell UltraSharp U3014 WQXGA IPS monitor

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While you may be waiting for that impressive 4K monitor from Asus to launch, which your computer may not be able to handle anyway, there are a handful of monitors available today that are more than suitable for even the most demanding user, and we found a hot deal on one of them. Dell’s UltraSharp U3014 is probably the most impressive premium monitor when you look at across-the-board specs; it is also the newest one, having launched just a few months ago.

Let’s get the meat and potatoes of this piece of kit out of the way: the no-holds-barred 30-inch screen. It serves up an above average WQXGA resolution, which comes out to a rather delicious 2560×1600. This thing has more vertical pixels than most displays have horizontal pixels.

The technology underpinning all those pixels is IPS, which allows for extra-wide viewing angles and richer colors. A new Green-Blue LED backlight allows for the wide color gamut that professionals require, supporting a total of 1.07 billion colors with 99% Adobe RBG support. It comes calibrated from the factory and has built-in calibration software that you can pair with an optional X-Rite colorimeter.

On the back of this beast lies every connectivity option you could need: DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI. Absent is the aging VGA. Newer laptops are coming with Mini DisplayPort, making that a logical choice, alongside the near-universal HDMI and the now legacy DVI. That’s not all you can connect to the U3014 though, thanks to a four-port USB 3.0 hub and a 9-in-1 media card reader.

Wrapping up this top-of-the-line tech is a three-year warranty with advance exchange, where Dell ships you a replacement and you sends yours back on their dime. It also covers replacement of the panel should yours develop any bright pixels during those three years too. As long as you don’t rage and throw the U3014 out the window, you’ve got a problem-free life with the U3014.

Not only do all these specs and details just scream best of the best, but our friends at PCMag gave it a 4/5 rating and their Editor’s Choice award. Normally this beast runs near $1,500, but we’ve found a couple coupons that stack together and bring the price down to just $1,147.49 with free shipping. We saw the price about $25 lower some weeks ago on a very limited time offer, so this is definitely one of the best prices you’ll ever get on such an awesome display.